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How is different than giving antibiotics to somebody ill? You are preventing the natural outcome, with something artificially created. I think many people when
by antirez 12y ago
How is different than giving antibiotics to somebody ill? You are preventing the natural outcome, with something artificially created. I think many people when the topic is "DNA" simply over-react.
- robmcm 12y agoThe argument is that changes to genetics bridge generations. If you kill someone with medicine they die. If you give someone a faulty gene, it could affect exponential number of people with each generation. Unless it affects reproduction ;)
- antirez 12y agoIt is the same with antibiotics, people that naturally would not be able to reproduce, will, so the global genetic outcome will change, and possibly something making a given person susceptible to a given infection will be passed to the next generation. But nobody, fortunately, pretends that it is a bad idea to give antibiotics to patients.